Outdoor Applications

Dominion Energy

Plastic Fabrication Company Uses Clear Plastic Sheet for Custom Acrylic Fabrication Occasionally our customers need fabricated sheets for their product. Dominion Energy recentlyneeded a new wet calibration rig to replace a dirty old yellowing acrylic rig. The project...

Butyrate Tubing Clarity And Toughness

Butyrate tubing (CAB) is known for its toughness, but when properly extruded it can compete even with cast acrylic in clarity. At Busada, we cater to the small order; we run in small lots and low screw speeds. Quality matters here, not throughput. We recently sent a...

Macro-Algae Bio-Absorption Filters

Pax Bellum contacted us regarding their macro-algae bio-absorption filters for the aquaculture and aquarium industry. The devices use a central light assembly consisting of a plurality of LEDs affixed to a water pipe or heat pipe. They were looking to replace the...

Flotation Bend

We have manufactured butyrate tubing for marina docs, oceanic core tubes, and other aquatic uses but here is a first. It is a butyrate flotation bend. The bend was sectioned together with butyrate discs and solvent welding before the bending process. We achieved the...

Busada Core Tubing

Busada began selling oceanographic core liner tubing in 1958 for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. CAB tubing has stood the test of time for it is resistant to harsh environments, very transparent, and resists breakage in frigid environments. Our tubing is clear, rigid,...

Snowmetrics Snowboard Equipment

SnowMetrics has been using Busada Tubing for decades. They choose our sampler tubes for wall thickness and diameter accuracy. They specify butyrate tubing for its enhanced properties of toughness, weatherability, and shatter resistance. Tubes are 12″ in length...

Now That’s a Tube

We are often approached for heavy-walled tubing in CAB (butyrate), PETG, and Tritan up to 1/2" in thickness: no problem. We have extruded a 3" OD Butyrate tube with a .625" a specialty product for. S. King Fulton Corp. They chose Busada butyrate tubing for its...

Butyrate VS. Acrylic In Outdoor Weathering Valve Stems

Decades ago, Rodney Hunt Company, Orange MA and Waterman Industries, Inc., Exeter, CA began using our butyrate tubing to protect their stems from weathering. Butyrate (CAB) protectors provided clarity, UV protection, and fracture resistance without the weight and...

Forty Years of Vibracore Sample Tubing

For decades, Busada has been extruding sample core tubing for oceanographic research; and off-shore bottom sampling in the search for submerged oil reserves. The clear tubing may be removed intact from the pipe, preserving the original spatial relations of the sample...

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